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A Comprehensive View of Andre Norton's Witch World
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The Road of Dreams and Death

A Novella by Robert E.Vardeman

 

Edition Used for Analysis:
[Tales of the Witch World 1] (1989) Published by TOR, PB, 0-812-54757-8, 978-0-812-54757-3, $3.95, 343pg ~ cover by Victoria Poyser

Synopsis:

Luanna daughter of Eoin Lord of Rozdale has fallen in love with Anscom of Arvon a farmer she met at market. Eoin has forbidden Luanna from even thinking of Anscom to no avail. Luanne sneaks out of the castle in the middle of the night to travel to her love. At the edge of the waste she stops in an Inn to find a guide. Only crazy ol Pearr will take her through the waste but he is on his own quest to find “The Road of Dreams”. They come across evidence of a battle between a lone rider and the Gray Ones, Luanna decides they must try to save the rider. Both Luanne and Pearr find their quest fulfilled at the end of “The Road of Dreams” but only one gets what they want.

Timeline Points:

  1. p319. "Anscom of Arvon was but a farmer gone to market in Quayth when they [Anscom and Luanna of Rozdale in High Hallack] had met." (So must be sometime after Amber of Quayth)

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Intersting Companion Articles
 

[Glossary of Witch World] [Races of the Witch World] ~ by the Grand Wizard Michael Martinez

[Bibliography 1980] [Humanity 1982] [Survey 1983] [Andre becomes her Fiction 1994] ~ by the Grand Wizard Roger Schlobin

[Introduction to Witch World 1977] ~ by the Grande Dame Sandra Miesel

[Norton Profile 1966] ~ by the Grande Dame Lin Carter    [Witch World Calander 1980] ~ by the Wizard C.M. Quillan

Back to Contents     [Expanded Reading Order of The Witch Word Saga~ by the Master Sorcerer Metaldragon

 


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